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From: "André Goddard Rosa" <andre.goddard-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org,
	linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: [PATCH] vfork.2: Improve text legibility and fix verbs tense
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:51:33 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8bf37780910180551g23f00ff2x1f2fca413a4b4842@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Goddard=20Rosa?= <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:44:17 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] vfork.2: Improve text legibility and fix verbs tense
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Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>

diff --git a/man2/vfork.2 b/man2/vfork.2
index ef86812..4f73f80 100644
--- a/man2/vfork.2
+++ b/man2/vfork.2
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ is a special case of
 It is used to create new processes without copying the page tables of
 the parent process.
 It may be useful in performance-sensitive applications
-where a child will be created which then immediately issues an
+where a child will be created which then will immediately issue an
 .BR execve (2).
 .PP
 .BR vfork ()
@@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ and to create a unique task structure for the child.
 However, in the bad old days a
 .BR fork (2)
 would require making a complete copy of the caller's data space,
-often needlessly, since usually immediately afterwards an
+often needlessly, since usually immediately afterwards a
+.BR vfork ()
+an
 .BR exec (3)
 is done.
 Thus, for greater efficiency, BSD introduced the
@@ -125,7 +127,7 @@ child was using its resources.
 The use of
 .BR vfork ()
 was tricky: for example, not modifying data
-in the parent process depended on knowing which variables are
+in the parent process depended on knowing which variables were
 held in a register.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
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1.6.5.1.31.gad12b

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From 33671da01189ff40533708c1d81e6d78bfa5e312 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Goddard=20Rosa?= <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:44:17 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] vfork.2: Improve text legibility and fix verbs tense
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man2/vfork.2 b/man2/vfork.2
index ef86812..4f73f80 100644
--- a/man2/vfork.2
+++ b/man2/vfork.2
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ is a special case of
 It is used to create new processes without copying the page tables of
 the parent process.
 It may be useful in performance-sensitive applications
-where a child will be created which then immediately issues an
+where a child will be created which then will immediately issue an
 .BR execve (2).
 .PP
 .BR vfork ()
@@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ and to create a unique task structure for the child.
 However, in the bad old days a
 .BR fork (2)
 would require making a complete copy of the caller's data space,
-often needlessly, since usually immediately afterwards an
+often needlessly, since usually immediately afterwards a
+.BR vfork ()
+an
 .BR exec (3)
 is done.
 Thus, for greater efficiency, BSD introduced the
@@ -125,7 +127,7 @@ child was using its resources.
 The use of
 .BR vfork ()
 was tricky: for example, not modifying data
-in the parent process depended on knowing which variables are
+in the parent process depended on knowing which variables were
 held in a register.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
-- 
1.6.5.1.31.gad12b


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